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Colletotrichum: complex species or species ... - CBS - KNAW

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Damm et al.Fig. 12. <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> guajavae (from ex-holotype strain IMI 350839). A–B. Conidiomata. C. Seta. D–H. Conidioph<strong>or</strong>es. I–N. Appress<strong>or</strong>ia. O–P. Conidia. A, C–E, O. fromAnthriscus stem. B, F–N, P. from SNA. A–B. DM, C–P. DIC, Scale bars: A = 100 µm, D = 10 µm. Scale bar of A applies to A–B. Scale bar of D applies to C–P.agar and resembled Glomerella. The Gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ium stage it links tomay well fall within the C. acutatum <strong>complex</strong>: Gm. psidii, describedfrom Psidium pomiferi (= Psidium guajava) in Mexico, f<strong>or</strong>msellipsoidal-ovoid conidia measuring 10–16 × 4–6 µm (Saccardo1906); its conidia are thus broader than those of C. guajavae.Gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ium fructus-psidii was found on fruits of Psidium in SaoPaulo, Brazil, and was described as f<strong>or</strong>ming oblong, subfusoid toclavate, hyaline conidia, measuring 14–20 × 5–6 µm (Saccardo etal. 1931). The shape of the conidia of that <strong>species</strong> points also at theC. acutatum <strong>complex</strong>, however, there is no <strong>species</strong> in this <strong>complex</strong>with conidia on average generally wider than 5 µm. Conidia of C.guajavae are substantially smaller, measuring on average 13.4 ×3.5 µm on SNA and 14.6 × 3.8 µm on Anthriscus stem.Peres et al. (2002) isolated C. acutatum (s. lat.) from a guava fruitin Brazil. It caused lesions on guava fruits that were slightly largerthan those caused by a C. acutatum (s. lat.) isolate from strawberry.Based on the ITS sequences they generated, the isolates from guavaand strawberry from Brazil belong to the same maj<strong>or</strong> clade as C.guajavae; the ITS sequence is in fact identical to that of C. guajavae,but also the same as a number of other <strong>species</strong> in this <strong>complex</strong>,making an identification to <strong>species</strong> level impossible without additionalinf<strong>or</strong>mation. Based on a phylogeny from combined GAPDH and GSsequences in the study by Guerber et al. (2003), both strains belongto clade D (= clade 2 in this study), but not to the same subclade.The GAPDH sequence generated in Guerber et al. (2003) differsin 5 bp from that of C. guajavae ex-holotype strain IMI 350839. Astrain from guava from New Zealand, included in the same study,belongs to clade J3 sensu Guerber et al. (2003) (= C. acutatum s.str.). Apart from C. acutatum s. lat. and C. psidii, Farr & Rossman(2012) list rep<strong>or</strong>ts from Psidium f<strong>or</strong> C. coccodes in Myanmar, C.gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides in Brazil, China, Cuba, India, Mexico, Puerto Rico,South Africa, USA, Virgin Islands and Mexico, and <strong>Colletotrichum</strong>sp. in Brazil, Jamaica and Mexico; it is possible that some of theserep<strong>or</strong>ts should be referred to C. guajavae.<strong>Colletotrichum</strong> guajavae can be distinguished from other<strong>species</strong> of clade 2 of the C. acutatum <strong>complex</strong> using TUB2,GAPDH and ACT sequences, most effectively with GAPDH. Withdata from GAPDH alone the <strong>species</strong> sits within the very variableC. nymphaeae cluster. With TUB2 and ACT there is only 1 bpdifference between C. guajavae and C. scovillei, while CHS-1 and HIS3 sequences are the same as those of C. scovillei.<strong>Colletotrichum</strong> guajavae is not reliably distinguishable from these<strong>species</strong> using m<strong>or</strong>phological characteristics. Blastn searcheswith the GAPDH sequence of strain <strong>CBS</strong> 853.73 shows 100 %identity with HM038337 from <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> sp. isolate MFU 090624 from Ziziphus mauritiana (jujube) from Laos (Phoulivong etal. 2010), and it is theref<strong>or</strong>e probable that this strain also belongsto C. guajavae. The closest match with the TUB2 sequence ofstrain <strong>CBS</strong> 853.73, with 100 % identity, was GU246633 fromisolate R14 from Capsicum annuum from South K<strong>or</strong>ea (Sang etal. 2011). We identify that isolate as C. scovillei; the availablesequence does not include the region containing the singlenucleotide polym<strong>or</strong>phism that distinguishes TUB2 sequences ofC. guajavae and C. scovillei.70

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